Shooting exercise for simultaneous multiple shooters

ABSTRACT

A shooting exercise allows multiple shooters to shoot laser beams simultaneously at a target with several receivers with a laser gun. First, each laser gun held by each shooter is tuned to a unique frequency. Second, the shooters simultaneously shoot laser beams at the target. Third, receivers on the target register target hits. Fourth, a hit signal is sent to a host by the receiver when a receiver is struck by a laser beam. Fifth, the host processes the hit signals and produces a result. Then, the results are displayed on a monitor to show the hits of each shooter. Finally, a speaker sends out a sound.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention

[0002] The present invention relates to a shooting exercise, and moreparticularly to a shooting exercise that allows multiple people to shootsimultaneously at a target and counts the hits for each shooter.

[0003] 2. Description of Related Art

[0004] Shooting exercises allow people to practice shooting to improvetheir skills. Guns that use a laser, called a laser gun, instead ofbullets are widely used in shooting exercises as shooting games. In sucha game, the shooter aims the laser gun at a target that has a lot ofreceivers or sensors and squeezes a trigger of the laser gun to emit alaser beam. A laser generator that is mounted in the laser gun producesa laser beam when the trigger is squeezed. If a receiver on the targetdetects the laser beam, the shooter scores in the shooting game.

[0005] Conventional shooting exercises only allow one shooter at a timeto shoot at the target so the hits can be counted easily for eachshooter and scores can be registered when one shooter has finishedshooting. When all shooters have finished shooting, a final result isdisplayed, and a winner is selected. This type of exercise is not asinteresting as simultaneous, head-to-head competition with an opponent.Shooters who play in turns will not feel as competitive when shootingalone. If each shooter shoots his or her own laser gun at his or her owntarget, equipment cost is high.

[0006] To overcome the shortcomings, the present invention provides ashooting exercise for simultaneous multiple shooters to mitigate orobviate the aforementioned problems.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0007] The main objective of the invention is to provide a shootingexercise that allows several shooters shoot a target at the same timeand counts hits for each shooter when the shooting has finished.

[0008] Another objective of the invention is to provide a shootingexercise that is more interesting and fun than the conventional shootingexercise.

[0009] Other objectives, advantages and novel features of the inventionwill become more apparent from the following detailed description whentaken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0010]FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the shooting exercise forsimultaneous multiple shooters in accordance with the present invention;

[0011]FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a shooting exercise forsimultaneous multiple shooters in accordance with the present inventionwhere four laser guns simultaneously shoot at a target;

[0012]FIG. 3 is a plan view of a frequency selection card that ismounted in the laser gun in FIG. 2 for setting a unique frequency of thelaser gun; and

[0013]FIG. 4 is a plan view of the frequency selection card in FIG. 3,where the frequency selection card is set for a different frequency ofthe laser gun.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0014] With reference to FIGS. 1 to 4, four shooters (not shown) holdfour laser guns (30) respectively to shoot a target (10) with severalreceivers (11) in a shooting exercise in accordance with the presentinvention. The shooting exercise includes the steps of tuning each lasergun (30) to a unique frequency, shooting the laser guns (30) at thetarget (10), registering hits by an individual laser guns (30), sendinghit signals to a host (20), processing the hit signals, displaying hitsand making an audible sound.

[0015] Each laser gun (30) emits a laser beam that is tuned to a uniquefrequency to distinguish which laser gun (30) hits the target (10). Thefrequency for each laser gun (30) selecting by inserting a frequencyselection card (35) into the laser gun (30), which causes the laser gun(30) to change the frequency of the laser beam produced by the laser gun(30).

[0016] Each shooter simultaneously shoots at the receivers (11) on thetarget (10).

[0017] When one of the receivers (11) is hit by the laser beam producedby one of the laser guns (30), the receiver (11) registers a hit by thelaser gun (30) with the frequency of the laser beam and sends a hitsignal to the host (20).

[0018] When the host (20) receives the hit signal, the host (20)processes the hit signal with a logical operation and increments theaccumulated hits for the corresponding laser gun (30) and generates aresult.

[0019] The host (20) displays the result of the shooting excise for theshooters on a monitor and outputs a sound though a speaker.

[0020] The shooting exercise will be more interesting than aconventional shooting exercise because one or more opponents can shootat the target (10) with you at the same time. Every shooter who wants towin needs to take a quicker response than others' to shoot. The shootingexercise will be filled with a competitive atmosphere that will increasethe interest and fun.

[0021] Even though numerous characteristics and advantages of thepresent invention have been set forth in the foregoing description,together with details of the structure and function of the invention,the disclosure is illustrative only, and changes may be made in detail,especially in matters of shape, size, and arrangement of parts withinthe principles of the invention to the full extent indicated by thebroad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims areexpressed.

What is claimed is:
 1. A shooting exercise for simultaneous multipleshooters that uses individual laser guns and a common target with laserreceivers and the shooting exercise comprising: A. tuning each laser gunto a unique frequency of a laser beam, where the frequency of the laserbeam produced by and emitted from the laser gun; B. shooting the laserbeams from the laser guns simultaneously at the target, where severalshooters hold individual laser guns respectively and each shooter shootssimultaneously at the receivers on the target; C. registering targethits by the laser beams from individual laser guns; D. sending a hitsignal to a host, which identifies the specific laser gun that hit thetarget; E. processing the hit signals, where the host processes the hitsignals with a logical operation to count hits for each shooter andproduces a result; and F. displaying the results, where the results foreach shooter are displayed on a monitor.
 2. The shooting exercise forsimultaneous multiple shooters as claimed in claim 1, wherein theshooting exercise further comprises the following step after thedisplaying the results step: A. sending out a sound, where the sound issent out through speakers; and B. showing the cumulative hits, thecumulative hits of each shooter shown on a monitor.